10H 



SEEDS HOW BEST RAISED. 



products, even their indigenous and long-established 

 cultures, more freely and systematically than has 

 hitherto been the case. Gardeners and Farmers in 

 Europe seldom continue to cultivate from the seed 

 constantly ripened in their own grounds, but inter- 

 change with, or purchase from others, what these 

 again are ready to do with theirs. 



The seeds of a great variety of plants have been 

 sent by the monthly mail at different times to the 

 several Botanic Gardens which have been enu- 

 merated, and latterly to the Agricultural Socie- 

 and Bombay, ties of Calcutta and Bombay. Of the measures 

 adopted, an instance may suffice in the extract 

 of the following letter from Monsieur A. De Can- 

 dolle, of Geneva, who is following the course of the 

 distinguished Botanist, his father. 



Seeds sent to 

 India, 



Letter from M. 

 A. De Can- 

 dolle. 



" Mon cher Monsieur, 



" Je viens d'adresser a Mr. Bentham une caisse qui contient differens 

 objets pour vous. Ce sont d'abord des graines, d'especes cultivees dans 

 notre jardin, et de plantes cultivees en grand dans ce pays. Je ne suis 

 pas parvenu encore a me procurer les Cereales cultivees dans les plus 

 hautes parties de la Suisse, mais j'ai pense que les vari6tes usitees dans 

 nos plaines reussiraient peut etre mieux dans 1'Inde que les semences 

 venues d'Angleterre. On estime en agriculture qu'il faut croiser les 

 semences, c'est-a-dire semer dans un pays des bles venant d'un autre, 

 afin qu'ils aient des qualites differentes de celles que le clim.it clu pays a 



